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Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption The Dean of Westminster, John Hall accompanied by Hawking’s first wife Jane Hawking and son and daughter Tim and Lucy Hawking, presides over the interment of the ashes Tributes have been paid to renowned physicist Prof Stephen Hawking in a Westminster Abbey memorial service. British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who played […]

Image copyright NASAImage caption The south of Greenland viewed from the International Space Station Greenland has gone through an “unprecedented” period of ice loss within the last two decades. The Grace satellites revealed a four-fold increase in mass being lost from Greenland’s ice sheet from 2003-2013. The study in Proceedings of the National Academy of […]